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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
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Boeing's 787 supply chain has slowly regrouped from last year's production system meltdown. All six major structural producers are now approaching milestones originally set for September-October 2007, but progress is stabilising roughly on track with the latest revised schedule.
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Wednesday 18 June, 2008 10:15 AM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Expanding its wings in new markets, R&D foundry upstart SVTC Technologies Inc. has launched a solar-cell development center in Silicon Valley.
As part of the move, SVTC has signed a collaboration agreement with solar equipment manufacturer Roth & Rau AG of Germany. Under the agreement, Roth & Rau will provide a complete silicon wafer solar cell development and manufacturing line for SVTC of San Jose.
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Wednesday 18 June, 2008 08:57 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
The weak U.S. economy -- reflected in the nation's currency -- does offer a bit of an upside.
The U.S. dollar has lost so much value compared with the euro that European auto parts makers -- and even automakers -- are moving some of their purchasing, engineering and manufacturing to the United States, or countries with currencies closely tied to the U.S. dollar.
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Wednesday 18 June, 2008 08:10 AM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
ATLANTA-Skyworks Solutions, Inc , an innovator of high performance analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling mobile connectivity, today introduced a product portfolio of energy management solutions for the wireless home. The company’s Linear Products’ business has captured several key design wins with various market leaders for automated meter reading (AMR), advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), and ZigBee® (IEEE 802.15.4).
Multiple customer's mesh network solutions are going into volume production using Skyworks’ tested technology that includes front-end modules (FEMs), power amplifiers (PAs) and drivers, switches, voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs), phase lock loops (PLLs), diodes, and other key building block components.
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Wednesday 18 June, 2008 06:19 AM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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PALO ALTO, Calif.-GigOptix , the leading provider of electronic engines for the optically connected digital world and Teleoptix, experts in microwave MCM and hybrid packaging design and manufacture announce that they have signed an agreement that will have the GigOptix iT6135C manufactured by Teleoptix at their facility in Italy. Teleoptix is the latest contract manufacturer to be signed to partner with GigOptix in their continuing strategy to provide cost effective high performance solutions using an outsourced manufacturing model.
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Wednesday 18 June, 2008 04:09 AM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
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The Department Of Energy (DOE) -- Power Marketing Administration (PMA) is an organization dedicated to the marketing of electricity generated from government hydroelectric dams, management of the transmission and distribution grids and economic development. To achieve its mission, the PMA has substantial technical and engineering capability, contract management expertise, good relationships with the major public utilities as well coordination and cooperation with state and local governments.
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Wednesday 18 June, 2008 02:53 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
Intercim LLC , a global leader in manufacturing and production operations management software solutions for
advanced and highly regulated industries and Dassault Systemes (DS) (Nasdaq:
DASTY; Euronext Paris: No.13065, DSY.PA), world leader in 3D and Product
Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, have signed a Memorandum of
Understanding focused on combined solutions for the aerospace and defense
industry
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Wednesday 18 June, 2008 12:06 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
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2007 was yet another successful year for international trade in machines and equipment which grew by 11.7%. “German exports increased by 10.6% ”, said Manfred Wittenstein who is chairman of the German association for mechanical and plant engineering (VDMA). This places Germany on top of the list of the world’s most important exporting countries of such products.
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Tuesday 17 June, 2008 10:57 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
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When New York City wanted to make the biggest purchase of subway cars in U.S. history in the late 1990s, more than 3 billion dollars worth, the only companies that were able to bid on the contract were foreign. The same problem applies to high-speed rail today: only European or Japanese companies could build any of the proposed rail networks in the United States. The U.S. has also ceded the high ground to Europe and Japan in a broad range of other sustainable technologies. For instance, 11 companies produce 96% of medium to large wind turbines; only one, GE, is based in the United States, with a 16% share of the global market. The differences in market penetration come down to two factors: European and Japanese companies have become more competent producers for these markets, and their governments have helped them to develop both this competence and the markets themselves.
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Tuesday 17 June, 2008 08:05 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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In Silicon Valley , the stars have long been charismatic marketing visionaries and cool-nerd software wizards. By contrast, mechanical engineers who design and run computer data centers were traditionally regarded as little more than blue-collar workers in the high-tech world.
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Tuesday 17 June, 2008 06:58 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
McDermott International, Inc . announced today that a subsidiary of J. Ray McDermott, S.A. has entered into a joint venture with a subsidiary of state-owned China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation ("CSIC").
The joint venture company, Qingdao McDermott Wuchuan Offshore Engineering Company Ltd. ("McDermott Wuchuan"), plans to establish a new facility on over 111 acres in HaiXiWan, Qingdao, Shandong, China.
This new facility is anticipated to be strategically located adjacent to two new CSIC shipyards: Qingdao Wuchuan Heavy Industry Co. Ltd. (J. Ray's joint venture partner) and Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Co. Ltd. In this developing area, CSIC has one floating dock and five dry docks capable of accommodating vessels up to 500,000 deadweight tons.
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Tuesday 17 June, 2008 04:03 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
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High oil prices may spell the death knell for major new additions to global gold reserves , according to one of Australia's foremost equities analysts. Addressing the 2008 Paydirt Gold Conference in Perth, Western Australia, earlier this year, corporate analyst and equities market author, Peter Strachan, said oil-reliance could hamper future growth in gold production volumes.
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Tuesday 17 June, 2008 02:46 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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The new higher-education academy launched this month to solve the malaise affecting the engineering sector has no money and no buildings. When placed alongside other academies we're used to reading about, it ain't much cop.
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Tuesday 17 June, 2008 12:45 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
Did you know Trivia - A team of Korean researchers has successfully made a micro-mini computer keyboard with almost 70 100-㎛ components by pouring liquids onto boards.
click this link to read more
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Tuesday 17 June, 2008 10:43 AM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
A low-power microchip developed at the University of Michigan uses 30,000 times less power in sleep mode and 10 times less in active mode than comparable chips now on the market.
According to Eurekalert, the news service of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Phoenix Processor, which sets a low-power record, is intended for use in cutting-edge sensor-based devices such as medical implants, environment monitors or surveillance equipment.
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Tuesday 17 June, 2008 08:42 AM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Peter Wu
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Dubai Municipality has established a new laboratory for testing green materials . The new initiative will be used for assessing the characteristics of these materials as per the international approved standard specifications, said Eng. Hawa Abdullah Bastaki, Director of Dubai Central Laboratory Department.
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Tuesday 17 June, 2008 06:40 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
The search for living beings in far-off galaxies has kept mankind occupied for centuries. There have been sightings of UFOs in the past and similar incidents are reported from time to time. The question is - are alien invasions really on the cards?.
THE GOVERNMENT of Romania has released video recordings of the sightings of unidentified flying object (UFOs) by pilots of a MiG-21 Lancer aircraft on October 30, 2007. This was shown on a TV channel and a search of the Internet revealed news items that lend credence to the information
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Tuesday 17 June, 2008 04:38 AM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
When Oregon State University researchers first announced they had created a transparent transistor, John Wager, professor of electrical and computer engineering, said it was too early to tell what practical applications might arise from it.
Five years later, the technology has found its first industrial use: making solar panels lighter, more efficient and with the ability to blend in or accent a building’s architecture.
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Tuesday 17 June, 2008 02:21 AM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
San Antonio - The University of Texas at San Antonio's Center for Advanced Manufacturing & Lean Systems (CAMLS), housed in the College of Engineering, recently partnered with the San Antonio Manufacturers Association and held a one-day Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Workshop.
RFID is an automatic identification technology that stores and remotely retrieves data using devices called RFID tags or transponders. RFID tags are objects that can be applied to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification using radio waves.
The move towards RFID technology continues to rise in both the retail and manufacturing sectors. In 2005, Wal-Mart mandated that all its top suppliers have RFID tags on pallets carrying products delivered to all Wal-Mart Distribution Warehouses. Now more manufacturers are implementing RFID systems into their distribution systems.
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Tuesday 17 June, 2008 12:19 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Barot Casha
Wartsila North America Inc. began detailed engineering and manufacturing on a 163 MWe gas-fired power plant for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E). Plant construction could begin later this year and be completed in the fall of 2009. Construction cost is estimated at $250 million, or around $1,500/kW. Coming to PG&E: A Wartsila 18V50DF dual-fuel engine.
In April 2006 Wartsila was selected to deliver the power plant to PG&E. The project has been subject to the approval of the California Public Utility Commission and environmental permits issued by the California Energy Commission. All approvals have now been received.
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Monday 16 June, 2008 10:18 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
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OCHIGI, Japan - American Honda Motor Co., Inc. , today announced five of the first customers for its advanced new FCX Clarity hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicle and also provided details of the world's first fuel cell vehicle dealership network in the United States. The announcements were made during a ceremony for the start of FCX Clarity production at the world's first dedicated fuel cell vehicle manufacturing facility in Japan.
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Monday 16 June, 2008 08:17 PM |
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